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Originally Posted by sumi1
I should have said if the new album comes, given the dismal sales figures for UEDS. But I am hopeful  |
Just want to weigh in here.
Alizée is an international star these days not exclusively or even primarily French. Psychédélices has sold well over 200,000 copies worldwide but only 50,000 of those were sold in France. If you only look at the French sales it looks like a flop. If you look at the worldwide sales, it's not bad at all, especially in today's market for CDs.
In order to evaluate how UEDS does, we are going to need to be able to examine sales in all media (downloads, special packages, and CDs) over the whole world. CD sales alone in France alone will necessarily give a distorted picture. I googled "sales of Un Enfant du Siecle" after seeing the above-quoted comment and found discussions where people were lamenting the low sales in the first week, but also raving about how awesome the album is and discussing how they could get it at a realistic price. (Because Amazon was charging something absurd. Which is true. Only for Alizée would I ever shell out that kind of money for a CD.)
UEDS is a very, very good album. I am confident that it will sell well. I'm not so confident it will sell well in France. I'm also not confident that the physical CD sales will be impressive. I look forward to seeing more complete figures, realizing that they won't likely be available for months. I'm especially interested in seeing U.S. and Canadian sales. I have a feeling they're going to outstrip anything our girl has done here before.